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Health care
As more states legalize marijuana, advocates see signs suggesting Texas may move that way
In Texas, both political parties now support loosening the restrictions on marijuana in their platforms. That’s just the clearest sign that both public opinion and the political calculus on pot are rapidly shifting.
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Families Divided
Analysis: On immigrants, death penalty and pot, Texans’ views now look more like the rest of the country
This looks like a year where the rule of “all politics is local” is out. The findings from the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll make it seem that “all politics is national.”
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TribCast
Family separations, political horse races, guns, weed and the NFL, from the UT/TT pollsters
In this special edition of the TribCast, Texas Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey sits down with University of Texas at Austin pollsters Daron Shaw, Jim Henson and Josh Blank to talk about the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Led by Democrats and young adults, most Texas voters want to legalize marijuana, UT/TT Poll finds
Most Texans are ready to legalize marijuana, but political obstacles remain, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Analysis: Texas culture warriors got a lot to work with last week
Culture wars feed political wars, and the candidates on both sides in the 2018 election cycle got a couple of big issues to fight about last week.
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Health care
Report: Drugs or alcohol factor into half of Texas child abuse and neglect deaths
The number of Texas children dying from abuse and neglect decreased by 22.5 percent in fiscal year 2017, according to a state report, but drug and alcohol use among caregivers is still leading to deaths from trauma, accidental smothering while sleeping and auto accidents, among other causes.
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Health care
Within days, this Austin company hopes to start legally growing marijuana
If everything goes according to plan, scientists and manufacturers working out of Compassionate Cultivation will soon begin selling cannabis oil to patients with intractable epilepsy.
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Criminal Justice
After 2015 legalization, Texans may be able to buy medical cannabis oil by January
Three dispensaries expect to get final approval from Texas soon to start growing and cultivating marijuana. It’ll take another several months before they can begin distributing the kind of cannabis oil that lawmakers legalized in 2015.
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Health care
This Texan’s daughter needed medical marijuana, so he moved to Colorado
Emmanuel Garza moved from Texas to Colorado so his baby daughter could get the medical marijuana treatment she needed. Legislation to legalize the same treatment in Texas failed to pass during the regular legislative session.
